KANG Hae-jung, Producer of MISBEHAVIOR

Filmmaker R & K, a film production established by director RYOO Seung-wan and producer KANG Hae-jung, who is RYOO’s wife, has already lasted as long as 10 years now. This company has mostly produced masculine action films by RYOO so far, but this year, it ...

LEE Woo-jae, Team Manager of KIDARI ENT, the Company that Sells Stories

KIDARI ENT is a company of a new genre that produces webcomics. So far, the norm in Korea was that webcomic authors themselves would produce their works, draw them and finally look for the right platforms on which to publish them. But KIDARI ENT produces and c...

Choreographer PARK Jae-in of THE WAILING and TRAIN TO BUSAN

One of the most unique characters of this year’s Korean cinema is a zombie. They made a shocking appearance in NA Hong-jin’s THE WAILING, and then attacked people in flocks in YEON sang-ho’s TRAIN TO BUSAN. One of the biggest features of zombies is their unnat...

VFX Supervisor PARK Min-yong of VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED

Among the films that showed the most unique visuals in recent Korean cinema would be VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED directed by UM Tae-hwa. This film expresses fantasy of 'time-stopped space' with original imagination. The role of the VFX Superviso...

KIM Tae-gon, President of KwangHwaMoon Cinema

There is a movie production company making a small yet significant change in Korean cinema. KwangHwaMoon Cinema, the producer of three films including Sunshine Boys (2013) by KIM Tae-gon, The King of Jokgu (2014) by WOO Moon-gi and The Queen of Crime by LEE Yo...

UM Tae-hwa, Director of VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED

The Grand Prize winner of the 11th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival with his short Forest (2012), who went on to make an impressive feature debut with INGtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls (2013), has returned with his sophomore feature VANISHING TIME: A BO...

Davide Cazzaro, Publisher of Independent Print Magazine NANG

NANG, a biannual magazine dedicated to Asian cinema, if simply put, is a very unique form of publication in many terms. Created through cross-cultural collaborations between guest editors, contributors and the magazine’s publisher and editor-in-chief Davide Ca...

LEE Hyun-ju, Director of OUR LOVE STORY

Our Love Story is a film about quiet love. The film unfolds two women’s love story delicately as they happen to be drawn to each other. In the film, they grow up while caring and understanding each other. Although there is no dramatic event or twist, the story...

Music Director Narae of WORST WOMAN and THE TABLE

The soundtrack in Worst Woman is light, like a comforting gesture towards the heroine (HAN Ye-ri) as she’s spending her worst day ever, as the original title (“Worst day”) suggests. The background music in LOVE GUIDE FOR DUMPEES (2015) is adorable and lovely, ...

LIM Syd, the Producer of THE HANDMAIDEN and LUCK-KEY

Perhaps this year was the best one for LIM Syd, head of film production Yong Film Inc., whose films The Handmaiden by PARK Chan-wook and LUCK-KEY by LEE Gae-byok have recently received popular and critical acclaim, especially when it was success shared with tw...